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Karen Claire Voss studied at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne. Past President of the American Academy of Religion, Western Region, she taught Religious Studies and Women’s Studies at San Jose State University from 1985-1991. Since 1993, she has worked closely with Romanian physicist and philosopher Basarab Nicolescu in the field of transdisciplinarity, and is translator of his Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, (SUNY, 2002) and his Poetical Theorems. Karen-Claire now divides her time between Istanbul, where she has lived for more then twelve years and has taught at Bogaziçi University and Fatih University, and Scotland, where she is co-owner of a fine art printing company, AGKC Limited (www.agkc.co.uk).

Her areas of research include mysticism, alchemy, esotericism, and contemporary culture. Work in progress includes three books: Spiritual Alchemy: A Way of Being in the World and Feminine Gnosis: An Other Way of Knowing, and A Key to the Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity.

The Faces of Karen-Claire

Wounded Angel – Hugo Simberg